Owners on the city’s coastline and their advocates are bracing for impact as two more major anticipated changes to federal flood insurance policy promise to fundamentally alter the landscape of affordable housing in New York City.
affordability
The Disappearing 3-Bedroom: Larger Families Have Few Affordable Options in NYC
|
The housing market is shedding three-bedroom units, and the mayor’s affordable-housing plan is producing few of them, leaving larger families in cramped quarters.
City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York
Seven Years After Sandy, Slow Moves Toward Resiliency in High-Risk Nabes
|
There has been some progress toward making New York City as a whole—and the Resilient Neighborhoods in particular—safer. But much remains undone.
Mapping the Future
De Blasio & Senior Housing: What Was That Promise That He Made?
|
The problem isn’t that the mayor isn’t doing what he said in 2018. It’s that he didn’t say much of anything.
bikers
Can the City Change Course on How a Key ‘Vision Zero’ Law is Enforced?
|
Forcing cops to attend hearings? Letting victims be part of the process? Reforming the law itself? We asked experts and advocates to weigh in on how to fix flaws in the city’s ‘failure to yield’ law exposed by a City Limits investigation.
bikers
‘Vision Zero’ Failing to Stick? Many Drivers Escape Penalties for ‘Failing to Yield’
|
A majority of summonses issued under the city’s ‘failure to yield’ law end up getting dismissed after hearings, a City Limits investigation found, and victims rarely learn the outcome of those cases.
CityPlate
See Which NYC Schools Eat Lunch Before 10 a.m.
|
Students at 51 percent of schools citywide head to the lunchroom at 11:00 a.m. or earlier. Where does your child’s school rank? And why is it so hard to feed kids at a normal time?
cars
Should Motorcycles and Greener Cars Get a Pass on Congestion Pricing?
|
Rewarding vehicles that cause less congestion or generate less pollution means reducing the amount of money congestion pricing will pump into the transit system.
Agenda 2019
In New York, Where You Live Can Determine How Hard it is to Vote
|
In the 2018 election and many before it, New Yorkers faced a voting hurdle unlike voters in most other major cities: a relatively low number of polling places, scattered unevenly through the city.
displacement
New Federal Tax Program for Depressed Neighborhoods Stirs Hopes and Concerns
|
A lack of regulations, and a dearth of information about what impact earlier place-based tax programs had, has some New York advocates and experts worried that Opportunity Zones offer as much peril as they do promise.
Age Justice
Alarm Over Proposed Cuts to State Program Overseeing Home-Health Aides
|
Advocates predict that changes proposed by the governor could reduce the number of ‘fiscal intermediaries,’ who help administer the Medicaid program that pays for home-health aides, by 90 percent.